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Palm
Beath
Post,
Monday,
Nov.
18,
1968
Viet
Cong
Units
Often
Frustrate
U.S.
Cavalry
Start
Saving
Now
for
Next
Christmas
indicated
that
30.000
or
more
enemy
soldiers
were
hiding
in
Binhlong
and
adjacent
provinces,
and
in
neighboring
Cambodia,
technically
a
neutral
country.
But
the
cavalrymen
seldom
have
been
able
to
find
enemy
units
larger
than
a
platoon.
The
division's
officers
even
some
of
its
rank
and
file
are
frustrated,
remembering
the
victories
their
helicopter
assaults
achieved
in
the
northern
provinces.
They
want
to
live
up
to
one
of
their
mottoes:
"Find
the
bastards
and
pile
on."
The
commander
of
the
third
brigade,
Col.
Charles
H.
Curtis,
says:
"The
enemy
is
supposed
to
be
out
here.
We're
burning
up
a
lot
of
gas
looking
for
him.
But
he's
hard
to
find
in
any
significant
numbers.
He
doesn't
initiate
many
actions."
The
story
is
much
the
same
in
Tayninh
Province
to
the
west
and
Phuclong
Province
to
the
east,
where
other
first
cavalry
brigades
are
operating.
It
is
the
same
in
the
provinces
closer
to
Saigon
where
more
Allied
units
are
stationed,
among
them
elements
of
the
first,
25th
and
ninth
U.S.
divisions.
The
Allied
commanders
are
confident
their
100
battalions
are
more
than
a
match
for
the
75
enemy
battalions,
which
include
elements
of
the
fifth
and
ninth
Viet
Cong
and
seventh
North
Vietnamese
divisions.
In
the
two
major
contacts
that
have
occurred,
the
enemy
initiated
both
and
fared
badly.
In
both
the
enemy
lost
about
125
men
of
an
attacking
force
of
more
than
500.
The
mission
of
the
enemy
troops
is
not
known.
Of
the
relatively
few
that
have
been
killed
or
captured,
most
seemed
well
equipped
and
well
fed.
However,
like
most
enemy
troops
throughout
South
Vietnam
today,
thty
appeared
not
so
well
trained
as
in
past
years.
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I
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ft
I
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5
good
reasons
for
joining
our
Christmas
(flub
It's
the
easy
way
to
"prepay"
Christmas
expenses.
k
You
avoid
borrowing
or
piling
up
holiday
bills.
k
You
get
your
check
in
time
to
shop
early.
There's
a
club
payment
plan
for
every
budget
k
It's
smart,
simple,
popular,
and
rewarding.
JOIN
NOW
(C)N.Y.
Timet
News
Service
LANDING
ZONE
RED,
South
Vietnam
The
Colonel
told
his
troops
not
to
shoot
up
the
French
planter's
rubber
tree
grove.
But
when
the
Americans
ran
Into
enemy
soldiers
dug
in
among
the
trees,
jet
bombers
were
called
in.
Their
napalm
bombs
singed
and
scarred
great
swathes
through
the
grove.
A
soldier
in
a
shellhole
watched
the
planes
work.
Every
time
the
bombs
and
napalm
canisters
crashed
in,
he
sang
out
the
old
Sinatra
line
"oops,
there
goes
another
rubber
tree
plant."
Then
the.
bombers
went
away.
The
Americans
climbed
out
of
their
holes
and
moved
through
the
smouldering
grove.
They
found
16
dead
North
Vietnamese.
The
others
had
fled.
None
of
the
Americans
was
hurt.
The
search
for
the
fleeing
survivors
continued
until
sunset,
a
night
perimeter
already
was
in
place
when
the
first
resupply
helicopter
came
in.
It
had
been
a
dangerous
day
for
the
third
brigade
of
the
First
Cavalry
Division
(airmobile).
It
had
also
been
a
very
typical
day.
The
cavalry
troopers
have
been
operating
out
of
landing
zones
such
as
this
one,
60
miles
north-northwest
of
Saigon
in
Binhlong
Province.
They
were
brought
to
this
area
from
a
quieter
sector
near
the
Demilitarized
Zone
because
intelligence
reports
k
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but
taking
a
breather
from
an
anti-draft
demonstration
at
the
Federal
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in
Tampa.
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the
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insists
it
can
hardly
tell
the
federal
agency
to
"get
the
hell
out"
and
operate
its
system
without
the
federal
money.
When
school
began
on
Sept.
10
the
Negro
students,
under
Frink's
leadership,
began
a
boycott
that
grew
to
include
approximately
800
of
the
850
Negro
students
in
the
county.
Their
absence
has
cost
the
school
system
money
because
part
of
financial
aid
from
the
state
is
computed
on
its
average
daily
attendance.
Then
last
week,
the
Hyde
County
Department
of
Public
Welfare
sent
a
letter
to
those
receiving
monthly
welfare
checks.
If
the
family
is
receiving
financial
aid
from
the
department
for
its
dependent
children,
that
money
will
be
cut
off
if
those
children
are
not
enrolled
in
and
attending
classes
by
Dec.
1,
the
letter
said.
On
Monday,
in
protest
against
the
welfare
department's
decision,
28
students,
all
of
high
school
age,
entered
the
office
of
Hyde
County's
school
superintendent.
Alien
Bucklew,
where,
according
to
Sheriff
Charles
J.
Cahoon,
they
"became
unruly
and
started
messing
things
up."
Bucklew
has
been
away
from
his
office
a
great
deal
since
the
school
term
began
because
of
illness.
He
was
not
there
recently
when
the
students
came,
they
said,
"to
talk."
After
two
hours,
the
sheriff
asked
the
youngsters
to
leave.
They
refused
and
the
sheriff
and
three
state
highway
patrolmen
used
sniokebombs
to
drive
the
young
people
out.
When
the
group
headed
for
a
nearby
Negro
school
by
walking
in
the
highway
and
"impeding
the
normal
flow
of
traffic"
in
violation
of
a
state
motor
vehicle
statute,
according
to
a
highway
patrol
spokesman,
seven
were
arrested,
i
Five
were
jailed
and
remained
in
custody
overnight,
their
bond
placed
at
$25.
The
two
others
were
released
on
their
own
recognizance).
One
night,
Cahoon
asked
for
help
from
the
highway
patrol
and
the
next
day
the
blue
and
gray
sedans
began
arriving
in
Swan
Quarter.
By
10
a.m..
20
highway
patrolmen
were
on
the
scene.
Shortly
after
noon,
the
first
group
of
demonstrators
arrived
at
the
courthouse,
marched
around
it,
stopped
at
the
entrance,
sang
a
few
songs
and
then
began
walking
down
the
highway.
The
patrolmen
made
26
arrests,
including
one
for
resisting
an
officer.
A
17-year-old
boy
kicked
a
patrolman
as
he
was
being
placed
in
a
patrol
car.
Only
the
boys.
11
of
them,
were
held
in
the
jail
on
$25
bond.
The
15
girls
were
released
on
their
own
recognizance,
pending
a
hearing
Dec.
11.
Two
hours
later,
five
of
the
girls
who
had
been
arrested
returned
to
the
courthouse
with
25
other
students,
marching,
singing
and
chanting
and
finally
joining
hands
across
the
highway.
At
the
jail
26
more
warrants
were
issued
on
the
same
"highway
obstruction"
charge,
but
this
time
the
girls
were
not
released.
A
half
hour
after
the
second
group
had
entered
the
jail,
another
cadre
of
demonstrators
arrived
at
the
courthouse,
singing
and
clapping.
The
songs
lasted
nearly
two
hours
and
then
the
group
left.
There
was
no
violence
-
One
night
Frinks
posted
bail
for
the
young
man
who
had
been
charged
with
resisting
arrest.
He
said
that
bond
for
the
others
had
not
been
posted
because
"We
just
haven't
got
any
money."
Dr.
Reginald
Hawkins,
a
Negro
who
ran
unsuccessfully
for
governor
this
year,
arrived
from
his
home
in
Charlotte.
He
said
he
wanted
to
look
at
the
situation,
determine
the
issues
and
provide
his
help
if
needed.
By
JAMES
T.WOOTEN
(C)N.Y.
Times
News
Service
SWAN
QUARTER.
N.C.
-Inside
the
white,
stucco
courthouse,
a
dozen
highway
patrolmen
load
their
paper
plates
with
boiled
shrimp,
ham
and
biscuit
sandwiches,
fried
chicken
and
potato
salad.
A
stainless
steel
percolator
gurgles.
Outside
eight
of
theircom-rades
stand
shoulder
to
shoulder
in
the
biting
wind
and
near-freezing
temperature
blocking
the
courthouse
entrance,
their
eyes
focused
on
the
glass
storefront
building
across
the
street.
Just
beneath
the
level
of
their
gaze,
a
small
bank
of
Negro
children,
poorly
dressed
sways
to
the
syncopation
of
a
song
whose
improvised
verses
go
on
and
on
and
on.
A
few
yards
from
the
patrolmen
and
the
young
Negroes,
inside
a
small,
brick
jail,
a
lone
sheriff's
deputy
sits
in
a
cane-bottom
chair
smoking
cigarettes
into
half-inch-long
butts,
listening
to
the
sounds
of
37
juvenile
prisoners
crammed
into
space
for
16.
On
an
adjacent
corner,
in
a
service
station
heated
by
a
glowing
kerosene
stove,
a
dozen
of
the
approximately
400
Swan
Quarter
residents
consume
soft
drinks
and
discuss
what
is
happening
to
their
community.
"Damned
Niggers,"
says
one
man.
"Never
satisfied.
Always
singing,
always
marching,
always
wanting
more
than
they
deserve."
His
companions
agree.
What
has
happened
to
Swan
Quarter
in
the
last
two
months
to
attract
members
of
the
news
media,
including
national
press
and
network
television
crews,
a
platoon
of
North
Carolina
Highway
patrolmen
and
even
a
carload
of
Federal
Bureau
of
Investigation
agents?
It
is
the
story
of
a
dilemma.
There
has
been
a
Negro
economic
boycott
and
Negro
absences
from
school.
A
group
of
students
calling
themselves
the
"Martin
Luther
King
Nonviolent
Crusaders"
has
invaded
the
courthouse
and
county
welfare
offices,
violated
highway
statutes,
vandalized
the
local
school
and
interrupted
a
meeting
of
the
Hyde
County
chapter
of
the
National
Association
for
the
Advancement
of
Colored
People.
The
juveniles
in
the
jail
and
the
children
in
front
of
the
officers
have
joined
750
Negro
students
in
a
two-month
boycott
of
the
Hyde
County
public
schools.
Led
by
a
Southern
Christian
Leadership
Conference
coordinator,
they
say
they
are
protesting
a
plan
for
classroom
desegregation
that
will
eventually
lead
to
the
elimination
of
the
only
two
all-Negro
schools
in
the
four-school
county
system.
The
blueprint
for
integration
was
drawn
by
the
local
Board
of
Education
approved
by
the
Department
of
Health.
Education
and
Welfare.
Pitted
against
this
view
is
the
board
of
education,
which
was
ordered
by
the
federal
agency
to
abandon
its
"freedom
of
choice"
integration
process
and
construct
a
plan
that
would
speed
the
mixing
of
races
in
its
classrooms.
If
such
a
plan
is
not
devised,
the
agency
said,
more
than
$125,000
in
federal
aid
to
the
four
schools
will
be
withheld.
The
board
complied
and
assigned
the
first
three
grades
of
both
Negro
schools
to
previously
all-white
schools.
Thus
the
lines
were
drawn.
Golden
Frinks.
the
leadership
conference
state
coordinator
who
serves
as
the
Negro
spokesman,
objected
to
the
absence
of
white
transfers
to
Negro
schools
in
the
board's
plan.
"We
want
the
board
of
education
to
tell
HEW
to
get
the
hell
out
and
let
us
draw
up
our
own
plans
for
desegregation,"
he
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